2-Bit Ideas

Arizona is starting the *design the state quarter* contest. Scheduled for release in May 2008.

Yesterday was our 94th birthday. I'm not a native, but have lived some where in Arizona most of my life. We can draw from lots of things in our state. We have the Grand Canyon, roadrunners, cactus of all kinds, pine trees, lakes, mountains, snow birds, just tons of things. So, we've enlisted a bunch of people from educators, artists, historians and even kids to help with the design. The Arizona Republic even printed out a *blank* so all of us could submit our *2-bit idea.* Hopefully, they will come up with something good.

Here are some ideas the newspaper's artist came up with, which we won't see. I like the *unknown snow bird* one myself. Only those who have lived in Arizona for sometime will get the jokes.

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